Disability and mental health

Based on our experience, this submission highlighted the need to improve access to a range of health services including access to alcohol and drug related services, mental health services, gap between aged care and palliative care, building a lived experience workforce, use of technology and importance of funding Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisations to deliver services in these communities.

The Royal Commission called for submissions on employment of people with disability. Our submission highlighted the Young willing and able: Youth Survey Disability Report 2019 and focused on the need to address systemic and structural issues that impact on people with disability from gaining meaningful employment.

This submission to the Victorian Legislative Assembly Economy and Infrastructure Committee highlighted a range of challenges that people with disability experience when accessing and completing TAFE courses, followed by solutions to address those challenges including early intervention at school level and training to TAFE academic and non-academic staff to provide meaningful, targeted supports students with disability.

Mission Australia made a joint submission with Brotherhood of St Laurence to the Department of Social Services consultation process on the National Disability Strategy. The submission included a range of recommendations to ensure people with disability are at the centre of strategy development.

Mission Australia’s submission addressed our response to the NDIS’ Interventions for Children on the Autism Spectrum paper. It noted our support for the principles and standards outlined in the paper, but also our belief that these should be universal and applied to interventions for all children, regardless of disability or developmental delay.